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Anime: Angel's Egg

Angel's Egg (Tenshi No Tamago in Japanese) is a surreal 1985 animated film which was directed by Mamoru Oshii and featured art designs by Yoshitaka Amano. The film centers around a young girl protecting an egg in an abandoned gothic city who meets a mysterious man with a cross-shaped rifle. The rest is...a bit harder to describe, but it's extremely beautiful nonetheless.

This film contains examples of:

As the Good Book Says
Beautiful Void
Creepy Cool Crosses
Dark-Skinned Blond
Doing It for the Art: Oshii admits that because this film bombed at the box office, he couldn't get any animation work for the next four years until he revived his career with Patlabor.
Egg McGuffin
Faceless Eye
Le Film Artistique
Flying Seafood Special: Giant flying coelacanth shadows, to be exact.
Gainax Ending
Ghost City
Have You Seen My God?: The real theme of this movie.
Importation Expansion: When it was brought to the US, 45 minutes of live action footage was added in an attempt to release it as a post-apocalyptic thriller. This version, called In The Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep has since been almost completely forgotten.
Leave the Camera Running
Minimalist Cast
No Name Given
Our Angels Are Different: Apparently, they lay eggs. Or destroy them, or something.
The Reveal: At the end of the movie, the camera pulls out slowly to show that the city is built on the capsized hull of Noah's Ark.
Rule of Symbolism
Silence Is Golden: There's less than a page of dialogue, and most of it is in one scene. The second line of dialogue is said a full 24 minutes into a 71 minute film
Taken for Granite
White-Haired Pretty Boy
White-Haired Pretty Girl
World of Symbolism